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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the name Feuchtwanger literary persons associate power. Reason: Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer, wrote a tome known in the U.S. as Power; abroad, as Jud Süss. Austin J. Feuchtwanger (stocks & bonds, onetime flyer) likes power. At Stamford, Conn., last week his fondness for it was demonstrated when the Sally-Too, 32-foot speedboat, was demonstrated, did 61 miles an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Power | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Appeared in London the second tome of King Edward VII's biography, written by the late Sir Sidney Lee at the express command of King George. These books, both enormous, tell the whole story of Edward's life from the time he was a boy to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Indiscretion | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...protest echoes the thoughts of thousands of boys who go to the $1,000 schools. Each one thinks his is the best school in America, and each one has football scores. Among the many leading eastern schools omitted by De Pinna are: St. Mark's, Kent, St. George's, Tome, St. Paul's (Garden City), Hackley, Canterbury, Salisbury, Rumsey Hall, Peddie, Pawling, Fay, Kiskiminetas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De Pinna Flayed | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Married. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 53, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; to Mlle. Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechterva; in Paris. In 1903 he married Mrs. Evelyn Smith Tome, first woman president of a National Bank,* who died last April (TIME, May 2), widow of Jacob Tome, with whom she founded the Tome Institute (commonly called Tome School), at Port Deposit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Evalyn Smith Nesbitt Tome France, first woman president of a national bank* wife of onetime (1917-23) Senator from Maryland Dr. Joseph Irwin France; widow of Jacob Tome, and co-founder with him of the Jacob Tome Institute (Port Deposit, Md. -commonly called Tome School); in Baltimore, Md.; following an operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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